COOK, James Eric
| Service Number: | 7461 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 July 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Carlton, Victoria, Australia, February 1888 |
| Home Town: | North Fitzroy, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 14 February 1928, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria Originally buried Coburg General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7461, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 21 Nov 1917: | Involvement Private, 7461, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Nov 1917: | Embarked Private, 7461, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 15 Aug 1922: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7461, 14th Infantry Battalion, 3rd MD, medically discharged (wounding) |
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From How We Served
The final resting place for 7461 Private James Eric Cook of North Fitzroy, Victoria, who had been employed as a driver and was married prior to his enlisting for War Service on the 5th of July 1917.
James departed Australia bound for England and further training on the 21st of November and following this he was shipped over to France where he arrived in the trenches on the 1st of April 1918 with reinforcements for the 14th Battalion, 1st AIF.
On the 18th of September 1918 James received multiple shrapnel wounds, to his left arm and right hip and was evacuated back to England for hospitalisation where he was admitted initially into the Graylingwell War Hospital at Chichester.
After receiving his initial medical attention and then time in convalescence in England, James was repatriated back to Australia as an invalid, embarking for his return on the 19th of April 1919.
Having arrived back in Melbourne James would undergo further periods of hospitalisation after his return and formal discharge from the 1st AIF.
James died of the effects of these wounds he had received whilst serving in France at the premature age of 40 on the 14th of February 1928. Following his passing James was granted an official headstone for his grave within Coburg General Cemetery, Victoria.
In recent decades James's official headstone was removed so as his 'official commemoration' could be shifted to the Springvale Gardens of Remembrance (2nd Extension), Victoria.
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